search results for "most beautiful swiss books"
2022
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
X Museum 2020–2021 is the first chapter in a series of annual publications dedicated to the activity of the newly opened museum in Beijing.
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A bilingual text by Alessandro De Francesco that blurs the boundaries between art and poetry.
2022
French edition
Captures - Artist's books
A series of drawings by Valérie du Chéné inspired by press articles, to which Arlette Farge's texts respond.
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni echo the fictional world of their films and the real world of their objects and sculptures, at the end of an exhibition-series developed over a decade.
2022
French edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni echo the fictional world of their films and the real world of their objects and sculptures, at the end of an exhibition-series developed over a decade.
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
White Rabbit Prod - Monographs & artist's books
This book is the first monograph devoted to the work of Kazuhiro Hori. Through a selection of his most emblematic paintings, it offers an introduction to the oppressive universe of the Japanese artist, populated by anemic teenagers and evil stuffed animals.
2022
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
The contributors of this book invite readers into a cultural journey at the crossroad of multiple disciplines, allowing them to rediscover the history of this administration from a sensible, intimate point of view.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of Dawit L. Petros's expansive suite of works reflecting the lingering effects of colonial brutality and revealing the links between the contemporary resurgence of nationalism and a suppressed colonial past.
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
The series of photomontages on canvas made by Eulàlia Grau in the early 1970s, a transgressive response of a young Spanish feminist artist to the authoritarian Franco society that conditions thoughts and bodies.
2022
English edition
Damiani - Photography
62.00 50.00 €
Father and son collaborate on a photographic panorama of humanity.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Monograph dedicated to the productions made in the early 1970s by major Swiss painter of Pop Art and Narrative Figuration Peter Stämpfli, period from which he devotes himself to the figure of the tire.
2022
Touch
2022 reissue of Fennesz's beautiful 4th solo album, originally released in 2008.
2022
Sub Rosa
Six unreleased piano pieces by Milan Knízák, written between 1991 and 2021, played by Czech piano virtuoso Miroslav Beinhauer.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The various dimensions of the landscape—mental, cultural and ideological, real and pictorial—in the emblematic works of Poussin, Le Lorrain, Bourdon and their contemporaries of the 17th century.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Frédéric Acquaviva, as Mozart of the assize court, questions, in this only known example of judicial sound art, justice and its functioning, but especially insists on the fragile barrier which separates criminals from honest composers.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
A reflection on asceticism in architecture.
2022
Recital
sold out
Second pressing of Recital's vinyl edition from 2015, perhaps the most approachable and beautiful in all of Loren Connors' catalog.
2022
Sub Rosa
Dark-folk songwriter Chantal Acda and beyond drums-percussion musician extraordinaire Eric Thielemans propose, after Phillip Glass, a new score for Koyaanisqatsi, re-actualising the incredibly beautiful, raw, rhythmic and touching images of this 80-ties cinematographic masterpiece.
2022
English edition
Damiani - Photography
60.00 50.00 €
An expanded edition of Ballen’s debut photobook—a charming homage to the spirit of boyhood around the world.
2022
Black Truffle
Collecting previously unissued works recorded between 2018-2021 and a side-long epic dating back to the early 80s, as the title suggests, "Drumming Up Trouble" focuses on a hitherto almost unknown aspect of Alvin Curran:'s encyclopaedic and omnivorous musical world: his experiments with sampled and synthesised percussion.
2022
Black Truffle
Dewa Alit, Bali's master of contemporary Gamelan composition, returns to Black Truffle with Chasing the Phantom, presenting two recent works played by the composer's Gamelan Salukat, a large ensemble that performs on instruments specially built to his designs, using a unique tuning system that combines notes from two traditional Balinese Gamelan scales.
2022
English edition
Damiani - Photography
68.00 55.00 €
Unseen images of the Great Depression from the famed chronicler of the African diaspora.
2022
Sub Rosa
This release highlights Leo Kupper's earliest compositions with his GAME machine - Générateur Automatique de Musique Electronique (Automatic Generatorof Electronic Music) constructed during the 1960's. Purely electronic sounds into new structures, Leo Kupper shows through his 4 tracks a real spirit of renewal.
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
This book is dedicated to the spectacular and baroque work of Kostas Lambridis, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.
2022
Transversales Disques
currently out of stock
Unpublished and outstanding archival recordings by electroacoustic music pioneer Luc Ferrari: a piece in three acts composed in 1989 for contemporary dance, choreographed by Anne-Marie Reynaud.
2022
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The album of breathtaking images of wrestling matches made in the US in the late 1960s by a little Swiss boy who will become a photographer.
2022
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book by the American artist, musician (Destroy All
Monsters), writer and bookseller intertwines Polaroids of 1970s
Detroit with photographs of painterly collages made of TV stills and print
ephemera combining Christian iconography, Classical Hollywood cinema, pop
and b-movie culture.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
At the invitation of Fabienne Dumont, seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic cast an eye on the work of American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984).
2022
no text
Nieves
Chronicles Vol. 3 combines Kim Gordon's Real Estate Paintings with staged canvases photographed by Josephine Pryde in vacant apartments and offices in and around Kriens and Lucerne. The photos, which were taken using purely analog technology, create a disturbing and enraptured atmosphere.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
Issues 39 to 41 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.
2022
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The sixth issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, is dedicated to the figure of the coalman.
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
A retrospective of immersive performances and installations with which the Israeli sound and visual artist, composer and musician explores the physicality of sound.
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A panorama of the multifaceted and transversal production of the Dutch-Jewish painter and composer Sedje Hémon (1923-2011), with fifteen essays.
2022
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The long term project of the Italian artistic duo around the trajectories of sound through the Mediterranean sea.
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A survey of the abstract and contemplative work of Pakistani artist Imran Mir (1950-2014), with fifteen essays.
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A survey of the pictorial work of the Afro-Brazilian artist, writer and activist, with fifteen essays.
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The catalogue of the 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach exhibition, curated by Elke aus dem Moore.
2022
English edition
Daisy editions
One Thing I Know is Pati Hill's third novel, first published in 1962, when she was forty-one and had just given birth to her first and only child. It is the last novel she wrote before claiming to "quit writing in favor of housekeeping".
2022
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
An inventory: Bibliothèque d'un Amateur. Richard Prince's Publications takes a look at Richard Prince's library and production of artist's books published between 1980 and 2020. (new expanded edition).
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
As a cofounder of Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, Emmy Hennings, with her partner, the Dadaist Hugo Ball, is recognized as having established and environment for collective experimentation. This book gathers an extensive collection of Hennings's writings, ephemera, and art, to give shape to a practice and an individual so ofter flattened for the sake of art historical narrative.
2022
no text
Tonini Editore
Autobiography by Ignasi Aballí is made up of 64 "años" (years), one for each of the 64 pages. Casually, the artist was born in 1958, it means that he has 64 years old at the time of the publication of the book.
2022
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The return to Lithuania of Francesco Cataluccio.
2022
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Fulton and Höpfner's long-term correspondence on art, landscape, and the aesthetic and political dimensions of walking.
2022
English edition
miscellaneous
Archive Books
The first in a series of publications emerging from the transoceanic platform Kal, Kal Rituals proposes queer and trans feminist ecologies, embodiments and mythmaking.
2022
English edition
Archive Books
Premodern acoustic traces as the basis for new communities of thought in the present (a project responding to the work of the self-taught acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi).
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A proposition opened up by Umashankar Manthravadi in his practice as an acoustic archaeologist, bringing together writers, choreographers, composers, actors, dancers, musicians, field recordists and sound, light, and graphic designers who engage and transform each other's work.
2022
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Archive Books
An exploration of the performativity of the law within Egypt's spectral legal reality.
2022
English edition
Archive Books
First monograph of Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: an attempt to expand the Polish and European iconosphere and art history with representations of Roma culture.